If you haven’t taken the 2 minutes and 31 seconds needed to partake in the experience, then I highly suggest you do it now!
The film, directed and co-written by George Miller, is an adaptation of the short story The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt.
Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures
Synopsis
Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic – content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.
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The Trailer
The vibrantly colorful and beautifully captured film is already promising an roller coaster of laughs and drama that will hopefully leave audiences pondering the question “What would you wish for?”.
The trailers release coincided with the films debut at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Elba tweeted that it was “Great to work with George Miller . . . ” on the project.
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